JTAG and Chip-Off Tools and Equipment

The following list contains equipment used for performing JTAG and chip-off analysis. It is noted when equipment is used for both procedures in order to avoid overlap and duplication of equipment. The URL's provided are for reference and other vendors and suppliers exist for said equipment. Please search Internet for other competitive vendors.

Note: This equipment is not a definitive list and substitutions can be made for equivalent tools and equipment.

1. The UP-828 driver is not signed and therefore doesn't work by default in Windows 7 64-bit. The programmer is identified as a as a Cypess Semiconductor Corp. CY7C68013. The signed Windows 7 64-bit driver can be installed by downloading and installing the Cypress EZ-USB FX2LP Development Kit, then using the CyUSB.sys driver found in '<installdir>\CY3684_EZ-USB_FX2LP_DVK\1.0\Drivers\cyusbfx1_fx2lp' for the UP-828 programmer.